Creative links: 29 July 2007

Is design art?

You can’t design without some kind of artistic vision or ability. Many designers would make great artists. But is design art? This is one of those fascinating perpetual questions and is discussed in great detail over at Design Sojurn. Is good design is art?

“Design has intent and often has a functional purpose and [...]

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Digital rights management dissected

Last week I was working with some digital video and acquired a few clips which were protected by Windows Media’s Digital Rights Management (DRM) system. This meant that I was prevented from using these clips in my project.

The project in question is a college project, so I’m not intending to profit from using the protected [...]

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Join the anti-splog vigilante brigade

Question: What is the difference between this blog posting, and my Top 10 plugins for a WordPress newbie post?

Answer: The first post is owned by a thieving scumbag splogger.

A ’splog’, as defined by whatis.com, is “a fake blog created solely to promote affiliated Web sites, with the intent of skewing search results and artificially boosting [...]

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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Here’s a clip from YouTube that has been doing the rounds over the last week or so. I originally saw it on one of my favourite blogs, LifeClever, so I wont take any of credit for finding it. However, I am really impressed with this and it’s certainly worthy of a share.

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